Barbara Hardesty, a 70-year-old from Ohio, has amassed a collection of 727 Christmas trees in her home, attracting visitors from around the world. Her Christmas passion started as a coping mechanism during a cancer battle, and now her uniquely decorated trees, themed from M&Ms to baseballs, draw tourists eager to experience her festive display.
An Ohio woman has 727 Christmas trees in her home, and they are attracting visitors from around the world.
“I didn’t know if I was going to survive, and I just felt like if I pushed myself to go from 60 some trees that I have the year before to 100 and focused on that, then maybe I had a chance.”Barbara Hardesty always had dozens of Christmas trees in her home, but when she was diagnosed with cancer, she focused on building her collection.“We kept our distance, we had people every 15 minutes, so no one was in the same room unless you came together, and nobody got sick,” she said.
Multiple rooms on her first floor, along with her front windows and back porch, and even her bathroom, are filled with the spruces — decorated in themes from M&Ms to baseballs to vintage letters and classic Christmas movies.Hardesty gets creative, using things like children’s books, sock monkeys, PVC pipes, old postcards and even her husband’s grandfather’s saws to trim the bunches and bunches of branches.
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